Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Atlantic awakens with Tropical Storm Dexter, 2 other areas to watch

Weather in America: August 4, 2025

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Craig Herrera.

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Tropical Storm Dexter forms off US East Coast in Atlantic Ocean

Tropical Storm Dexter formed off the U.S. East Coast in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday night. As of Monday morning, Dexter was located just over 250 miles northwest of Bermuda and was moving east-northeastward at about 12 mph.

Dexter is forecast to move away from the U.S. coast and stay to the north of Bermuda. While it could strengthen a bit over the next couple of days, Dexter is expected to become a post-tropical cyclone by Wednesday as it encounters increasing wind shear.

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2 other areas to watch in Atlantic for tropical development join Tropical Storm Dexter

As Tropical Storm Dexter moves away from the U.S. East Coast, the National Hurricane Center is also tracking two areas to watch for tropical development in the Atlantic Ocean.

One area is located off the southeastern U.S. coast and has a low chance of development over the next seven days. The other area is a tropical wave moving off Africa and into the tropical Atlantic later Monday, which has a 50-50 chance of developing into at least a tropical depression late this week between Africa and the Caribbean islands.

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Deadly flooding strikes Alabama as dayslong tropical downpour threat continues across Southeast

Millions of people across the Southeast are being told to prepare for possible flooding as the region faces a dayslong tropical downpour threat thanks to a stalled-out cold front that led to the development of Tropical Storm Dexter off the U.S. East Coast.

This comes as Alabama faced deadly flooding on Sunday. According to the Cleburne County Sheriff’s Office, one person was killed and others needed to be rescued after floodwaters rushed over roads and washed away vehicles.

This image shared by the Turkey Heaven Volunteer Fire Department shows flooding that took place in Cleburne County on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2025.

(Turkey Heaven Volunteer Fire Department/Facebook / FOX Weather)

Watch this: Cute sun bear lounges in hammock while wearing tiny lid for hat

The summer heat can be excruciating for most, but one bear in Oakland, California, is demonstrating how to relax during the hot season.

Bulan the sun bear was seen lounging out in a hammock at the Oakland Zoo in California last week. A visitor at the zoo captured the moment Bulan was using a lid for a hat as she relaxed with her feet kicked up in the air. 

Sun Bear enjoys lounging in a hammock on a hot summer day

According to the Oakland Zoo, these bears will spend most of the day sleeping and sunbathing in nests that they build in trees over 20 feet high.

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